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		<title>City&#8217;s First Subway Car Found</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/11/17/citys-first-subway-car-found/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second week of June 1901 saw the formal opening of the City&#8217;s first subway- what was to become today&#8217;s Brown Line- a modest straight line connecting the old Central Depot (across from Old City Hall, now Ludlow Plaza Station) and the Ostahanoc River, taking in the Downtown/Central Corridor areas, as well as the bustling Fifth and Second Wards. With a flourish and burst of a Champagne bottle, the very first car to travel the line was the &#8220;Jenny-Anne,&#8221; an elaborate ceremonial car outfitted with carpeting, electric chandeliers, upholstered seats and even a small wet bar. The car was constructed at the behest of L. Mathewson Burlsworth, whose Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line railroad was a partner in the project. From this point on, throughout the expansion of the subway system in the early 20th cetury, the car was occasionally pulled into service for various heads of state and other dignitaries, including President Theodore Roosevelt (It can be presumed that, for certain reasons, President Taft was not offered a ride during his 1911 visit). In 1914, the &#8220;Jenny-Anne&#8221; (named after the daughter of Mayor Orson Winthrop) was decommissioned and put on display at the Commercial Museum (adjoining the Atlas Exhibition Hall), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brothel Five Levels Below the Street</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/08/the-brothel-five-levels-below-the-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Central Depot, which sat across across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall from 1896 until its demolition in 1968, was a wonderful, massive gothic structure, covered in ornament and decoration which one doesn&#8217;t find much in today&#8217;s construction. It certainly isn&#8217;t found in its replacement, the City Centre Square building, a long rectangular affair, completed in 1972. Below the glass and brown brick-covered box, the City-Suburban Transit Authority (CSTA) has its Ludlow Plaza Station, the only remnant of the old depot. It&#8217;s one of the nicer stops in the subway system, with some of the old architectural details still showing through slight neglect mandated by tight budgets over the decades. Central Depot was the showpiece of the of the Ostahanoc Valley Northeast Line, a regional railroad that did very well with both passenger and freight transport during this city&#8217;s booming industrial age. As such, the railroad&#8217;s offices were located on the upper five floors of the massive limestone edifice to transportation. The first two floors were dedicated to the grandly-designed passenger concourse and two levels of tracks were located below, which are now used for CSTA subway and regional light rail. But few know about the levels which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go There: American Insurance Holiday Model Railroad</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/19/go-there-american-insurance-holiday-model-railroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cedric Rose]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go There is a feature in which our writers tell you about tourist attractions and other places of interest around the city. The annual American Insurance Co. holiday model railroad display at Central Station has delighted kids since 1952. Each year, Warner Mendelsohn hunches over his soldering gun and recreates the city, in ever-increasing scope and staggering detail. More than eight hundred model train cars, locomotives, and automobiles follow two miles of track and miniature interstate highway, above which model aircraft circle. Though he retired from the insurance company thirteen years ago, it&#8217;s still Mendelsohn&#8217;s project. The display has not been without controversy, beginning in 1962 when American Insurance (now American Insurance Mutual, Ltd.) fired Mendelsohn for an alleged conflict of interest after he privately sold advertising on the sides of the model train cars, including American&#8217;s competitor, Provident Mutual Insurance, Ltd. So popular was the display at that time that Mendelsohn took in thousands in advertising revenue. Thanks to community pressure, American allowed Mendelsohn to stay on, provided he turn over the revenue to American. In 1972, a prankster called in a bomb threat to &#8220;the model Old City Hall&#8221;, police staked out the display. Several Black Cat firecrackers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lighting the Natural Gas Menorah</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/12/04/lighting-the-natural-gas-menorah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Programming Change: It has just been announced that, due to the recent snowfall, the plaza in front of the QuadstatesEC (formerly Energonistics, formerly Municipal Gas Works) headquarters on East Main Street in the Central Corridor will not cleared enough for the mass dreidel spin after the lighting of the &#8220;Eternaflame&#8221; natural gas menorah this evening. Commemorative dreidels to makrk this first night of Hanukkah will still be handed out to the assembled crowd, however. At 5:30pm tonight, the menorah will join the natural gas jet Christmas tree, set aflame with a ceremonial butane lighting wand last Friday. Those worried about any wasted energy will be glad to know that this year&#8217;s holiday flames will utilize QuadstatesEC&#8217;s new ConservJet technology, more information about which can be found in the building&#8217;s ground-level Energy Store and Info Center, open until 8pm through the holiday season. All of this comes as a relief after last year&#8217;s lackluster show (many gas jet outages) and worries about Energonistics&#8217; contentious merger possibly putting the kibosh on this year&#8217;s display. The Kwanzaa ear of corn will be lit December 26. - RJ White]]></description>
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		<title>What A Character! &#8211; Fatty Turkey</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/11/19/what-a-character-fatty-turkey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring series in which we take a look back at the city’s most familiar advertising icons. From the annals of spokesfigures whose time had come and gone before they&#8217;d even arrived, there&#8217;s Fatty Turkey, the eponymous mascot of Fatty Turkey Brand Whole Frozen Turkeys. A subsidiary spawned from McLaren Preservatives, the Fatty Turkey Brand was the brainchild of founder and then-president Leland McLaren, who&#8217;d decided to expand his modest nitrate and polysodium empire into the market which his goods typically serviced. Debuting in freezer sections in 1977 &#8211; during the height of the health-conscious mania gripping thirties-bound baby boomers &#8211; McLaren&#8217;s advertisedly bad-for-you birds may have seemed a counter-intuitive comestible. Leland&#8217;s reasoning was, as he stated in a company newsletter and PR release later that year, &#8220;to reclaim the word &#8216;fat&#8217; from the doomsayers and finger-wagglers.&#8221; The 131-pound, six-foot-two McLaren &#8211; then fifty-five years old &#8211; continued, &#8220;When I was a boy, &#8216;fat&#8217; meant healthy! &#8216;Fat&#8217; meant robust! We all drooled at the thought of a fat, juicy chicken for dinner or a nice, fat goose for Christmas.&#8221; Essential to McLaren&#8217;s campaign to reclaim the luxurious implication of the long-since demonized word, pot-bellied Fatty Turkey himself was stamped onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Briefs- Haunted Houses, Politics, Etc.</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/10/30/halloween-briefs-haunted-houses-politics-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: As always, there are a smattering of haunted houses/trails/apple orchards/still-empty Service Merchandise stores/whathaveyous around the region, most of which close up shop as Wednesday night. The Central Corridor Jaycees, however, would like everyone to know that their &#8220;Thirteenth Floor of Terror&#8221; attraction will be running through this weekend, to give everyone a chance to get &#8220;their socks scared off, including their shoes,&#8221; as Jaycees spokesman Tom Watson emailed this week. Those with little regard for their socks can find the attraction at the Whitherspoon Building, in the 800 block of Main Avenue. Luckily for the Jaycees, leasing rates in that particular building have been soft for years. Unluckily for them, the Whitherspoon only has ten floors. The &#8220;Thirteenth Floor of Terror&#8221; is being held on the fourth floor. Their &#8220;Holidaytime Wonderland&#8221; will open in the same space November 14, running through the end of the year. :: Also on the subject of haunted houses- A friend wrote in about their trip through the &#8220;MeatHaüs of Horror,&#8221; set up at the old Robinson Provisions plant in the Meatpacking District. He&#8217;d taken the exact same route through the long-abandoned facility a month ago with a developer who plans to convert the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Graffiti, Flying Ravioli, Native Alabamans</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/10/05/friday-facts-graffiti-flying-ravioli-native-alabamans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[airport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Adelmorst is the longest city street name with all the letters in alphabetical order. :: Authorities still do not know who has been heavily tagging numerous Downtown, Central Corridor and Northside buildings with the phrase &#8220;Rock-n-Roll&#8221; over the last two months. :: Number of barriers erected in the West Sugar neighborhood to prevent speedy &#8220;cut through&#8221; traffic: 14 :: Decrease in traffic infractions since barriers were erected last fall: 16 percent :: Estimated damage as a result of the Sorini Refrigerated Macaroni truck driving through one of the barriers during a high-speed police chase, precipitated by a 14-month investigation into possible sales of &#8220;bad macaroni&#8221; to neighborhood children: $42,364 :: Cost to restore Stanley Hodges&#8217; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge (1972), a massive &#8220;elliptico Marxist&#8221; sculpture destroyed by the Sorini truck: $0 (&#8220;I will not let some macaroni shyster destroy the statement I bestowed upon West Sugar more than 30 years ago,&#8221; Hodges tells The City Desk. &#8221; At Rainbow&#8217;s Edge will rise from the ashes on that solemn spot.&#8221;) :: Of the 119 city residents killed or missing in action in the U.S. Civil War, all but two were fighting on the Union side. :: 6.5 oz Coca Cola at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where to Watch the Fireworks</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/07/02/where-to-watch-the-fireworks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, there is a second round of official, city-sponsored fireworks at Founder&#8217;s Pier on the riverfront this Wednesday at 8:30 pm, but you&#8217;ve seen those before. It&#8217;s an okay show, but why not try something a bit different? - The fireworks after the Elms (probably) lose to the Millionaires at County Stadium will likely be surprisingly good. Every year, it&#8217;s a nice, long show with a good finale and if you get the right seats (Sections AA-FF, $10-16), you&#8217;ll have a view of the skyline. If you&#8217;d like the show without having to hear Lee Greenwood over the public address system, the display is easily visible from the surrounding neighborhoods. - Speaking of which, we all know that our fair state is not one in which the sale of fireworks is allowed. Luckily, neighboring states are not as uptight in this regard, so rockets and firecrackers are fairly easy to come by. Sure, there&#8217;s the occasional crackdown for show and that video of a dummy getting its hands blown off makes the rounds on the local news programs for weeks, but law enforcement tends to look the other way. Because of this, the skies of the entire city seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Legends: Secret Subway, Haunted Skyscraper</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2007/01/29/urban-legends-secret-subway-haunted-skyscraper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central Corridor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Matt Vermeulen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every city has urban legends, and our city is no different. These stories grow over time, whispered in hushed tones in the corridors of power, retold to generations of passengers by gregarious cab drivers, or a vaguely remembered by an aging bartender at one of the city’s many watering holes. They may have been based on real events, such as the legend of the lost treasure of Old City Hall, but as they are told and retold, they become mythic, and if they are famous enough and strange enough, often become part of city history. Here is an overview of some of the most well-known urban legends to haunt our city—none are true, but they reflect the fears and excitement of bygone times. Secret Subway (1911) In the early part of the twentieth century, the city made an effort to connect downtown to the growing outer neighborhoods by engineering a new subway system to accompany the north-south line already in existence. The tracks began at the Central Depot (which before its demolition in 1968 sat across Ludlow Plaza from Old City Hall) and were planned to stretch out to the suburbs east and west of town. After several years of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Years for the Three Hoboes</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2006/12/20/new-years-for-the-three-hoboes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s eleven days until New Year&#8217;s Eve, which means downtown visitors can expect to see the familiar figures of regional holiday characters Little Paul, Manuel the Turk and John Portuguese wandering the Central Corridor, Downtown, Boardwalk, South Factoryville and Daisyland Amusement districts. Inspired by a tradition which dates as far back as 1780, the three figures are typically portrayed by a trio of the city&#8217;s less fortunate population of indigents, decked out in the familiar brown, green and violet robes and smocks of the three immigrant troublemakers. The legend has it that the original Paul, Manuel and John spent the eleven days prior to New Year&#8217;s and the three days immediately following involved in a series of misadventures and mischief, beginning with an escape from bonded servitude under their Dutch taskmasters and ending with the theft of cranberry tarts from a local baker, the acquisition of stolen kisses from one of the city&#8217;s prominent matrons, and the burning to the ground of the Lord Governor&#8217;s mansion and stable of horses. The City&#8217;s holiday shoppers and Christmastime lookie-loos are encouraged to gift the wandering figures with candy treats and small amounts of money. Tight-pursed passers-by might be met with the mocking [...]]]></description>
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